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Series · Prime Video · 2015

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

A small yes has a tail. The book is better. The show is gentle enough.

The picture book is a perfect little lesson in consequences, told as a joke a parent and a child can share. The series keeps the mouse and loosens the tightness. It will not harm anyone.

Read the book. If the show is on, let it be one, and then go get the actual cookie and the actual cleanup.

The eight

  1. Industry

    4/10

    The mouse's projects are play. A child can see that a task has steps.

  2. Household

    6/10

    A boy and a mouse sharing a house. The boy's patience is the plot.

  3. Piety

    2/10

    None.

  4. Courage

    2/10

    No danger.

  5. Republic

    2/10

    A single house.

  6. Temperance

    7/10

    The wanting is comic and it does stop.

  7. Truth

    6/10

    Cause and effect, repeated until a small child can say it.

  8. Stewardship

    5/10

    The book is the thing to hand on. The show is a reminder of the book.

Live historicallyGive the cookie. Then do the next thing the cookie requires, together, including the mess.

Series · Prime Video · 2026

Dutton Ranch

Inheritance as identity. A ranch can be a stewardship or a fortress. This tradition picks the fortress.

A ranch is one of the few plots television has left where stewardship is literal: grass, water, winter, the people who work it. The Dutton way of telling that story keeps turning the stewardship into a blood right against neighbors, tribes, and the state. The work is real. The throne is the lie they tell about the work.

The eight

  1. Industry

    6/10

    Cattle, horses, weather. The work is not pretend.

  2. Household

    5/10

    Blood is everything. That keeps them and blinds them.

  3. Piety

    2/10

    The land is the god.

  4. Courage

    5/10

    They will fight. They call every fight a necessity.

  5. Republic

    3/10

    The valley's law is whatever the family can enforce.

  6. Temperance

    4/10

    Pride is the family style.

  7. Truth

    4/10

    The grievance is partly true and wholly indulged.

  8. Stewardship

    5/10

    They mean to hand the ground down. The means corrupt the handing.

Live historicallyIf the land matters to you, learn one true thing about who kept it before your family name.

Annie